Meditation on the Studio Wall
During the 25 minutes that the camera exposed its film to a 16″ X 20″ section of the studio wall , I would sit, open my eyes and meditate on that section of the wall for the same length of time.
During the 25 minutes that the camera exposed its film to a 16″ X 20″ section of the studio wall , I would sit, open my eyes and meditate on that section of the wall for the same length of time.
Part of my attraction to the work is that it could not survive, and now only exists in relatively few murky black and white photographs that I peer into in an attempt to reconstruct it in my mind.
They haunted me for years before I could finally place them… small, darkly coloured, murky photographs of the night sky.
Scanning through the Ikebana section of the university library I came upon this book: Rikka: The Soul of Japanese Flower Arrangement by Fugiwara Yuchiku The book speaks of the origins…
Curly willow or tortured willow, corkscrew willow, Salix matsudana ‘Tortusa’Dianthus caryophyllus, carnation Equisetum, (; horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) Laurus nobilis of the family Lauraceae, laurel Aucuba japonica Aucuba japonica Japanese…
Despite our strategies to bridge the visual gap between the photograph and the thing being photographed, that distance stubbornly remains…
“We face the imperative to understand anew today what it might mean for photography to ‘move beyond representation’.” (Hito Steyerl from ‘Documentary Uncertainty’)